Building - Indian Laws - General

Word building Stroud s Judicial Dictionary (Vol. I of the 5th Edition) states that- what is a building must always be a question of degree and circumstances . Quoting from Victoria City Corpn. v. Biship of Vancover Island (AC at p. 390), the celebrated lexicographe commented that ordinary and natural meaning of the word building includes the fabric and the ground on which it stands . In Black s Law Dictionary (5th Edn.) the meaning of the building is given as A structure or edifice enclosing a space within its walls, and usually, but no necessarily, covered with a roof . The said description is a recognition of the fact that roof is not a necessary and indispensable adjunct for a building because there can be roofless buildings. So a building, even after losing the roof, can continue to be a building in its general meaning.